Whether you’re a photographer, scrapbooker, or aspiring graphic artist, Photoshop Elements 12 is an ideal image-editing tool—once you know how to use it. This bestselling book removes the guesswork. With candid, jargon-free advice and step-by-step guidance, you’ll get the most out of Elements for everything from sharing and touching-up photos to fun print and online projects.

The important stuff you need to know:

Get to work right away. Import, organize, edit, crop, and color-correct your photos with ease.

Retouch any image. Repair and restore old and damaged photos.

Add pizzazz. Dress up your photos with dozens of filters, layer styles, and special effects.

Barbara Brundage

Barbara Brundage has been the author of Photoshop Elements: The Missing Manual since Elements 3, is an Adobe Community Expert, and has been a member of Adobe's prerelease groups since Elements 3. She's been teaching people how to use Photoshop Elements since it first came out in 2001. Barbara, who lives in Jensen Beach, Florida, started using Elements to create graphics for use in her day job as a harpist, music publisher, and arranger. Along the way, she joined the large group of people finding a renewed interest in photography thanks to digital cameras. If she can learn to use Elements, you can, too!

I have quite a bit of experience with Photoshop Elements, but just picked it up as I went along. Using raw files in Photoshop Elements 12 convinced me I finally needed some systematic training and "The Missing Manual" has supplied thus admirably. There is no filler and the author helpfully directs readers with some experience to the sections relevant to their needs. Highly recommended.

I have been using Photoshop Elements for over ten years and thought I knew it pretty well, but this book has new hints and tricks that are very helpful and valuable. The style is cheerful, empathetic and encouraging.It's detailed and not really bedtime reading, yet it's easy to follow, and the editing is very careful. There are helpful links and cross references.I have the ebook and enjoy its simple access while I am working on the program. I think this is a good way to use it.

The Missing Manual is a comprehensive book for current and future users of PSE12. For the more advanced user, specific instructions are easy to follow. For the less "scientific" among us, the author is careful to not get too technical. An easy to understand, easily accessible index is included. Well written with lots of humor and examples.The main advantage of this book is that all of this information is in one place. It is a simple matter to pick and choose a topic without having to figure out keywords and Google search terms. I might add that it is also a lot safer to pick up a book than to click on a link, at least sometimes. Now you have your very own means of learning a powerful program and using it on your own.

I've been using Photoshop Elements since version 2. That's the last version with a user's manual. Still I thought I'd been able to keep up with new functionality simply by looking at the toolbars and menus. But this book shows that I've missed a lot. It has been extremely helpful in getting full value from all the capabilities of Elements.

I find the hardcopy book best for learning about the various features. But I also purchased the electronic copy for quick, convenient reference while I'm in the process of editing photos.